Above Onigashima.
Black-red Conqueror's Haki still churned violently.
Garp's smile vanished. He stood at the edge of the shattered ground, looking at Kaido across from him.
In that instant, he clearly sensed that Kaido's aura had changed.
It was not mere anger, but grief suppressed to its absolute limit.
Like a colossal beast covered in wounds that had finally lost the last shred of reason.
Garp did not hide it. He simply spoke in a low voice, "Rock's arrangement."
"The Three Admirals and the Three Admiral Candidates are leading their forces against Totto Land at the same time."
Kaido fell silent upon hearing that answer.
Black-red lightning burst around him. His left hand still covered his eye as he slowly raised his head toward the sky.
That burning Vivre Card had been reduced to only half a piece.
The firelight reflected off his bloodstained face, revealing a smile too ugly to behold at the corner of his mouth.
"Is that so..."
"No wonder..."
No wonder that Vivre Card had burned like this. No wonder Linlin had been driven to such a point.
Even a recovered and trained Charlotte Linlin would have found it difficult to leave Totto Land alive against a lineup like the Three Admirals.
In a daze, an image from long ago suddenly resurfaced before Kaido's eyes.
Back in that chaotic era when even the sky seemed torn apart, none of them would yield to anyone else.
Linlin had been arrogant, Newgate proud, Shiki treacherous, Rocks insane, while he had merely been a boy betrayed by the world, trying to become a monster that would bite through everything.
On that day at God Valley, the whole world seemed to have gone mad.
Celestial Dragons, Marines, pirates, Rocks, Rock, Roger, Garp... every monster had been dragged into that catastrophe.